Whacker McCracker is an Auckland businessman having a chronic mid-life crisis. When he decides to escape city life and his five predatory ex-wives by moving to Waiheke Island to open a simple little cafe things don?quite work out as planned.From his first encounter with Mal and Wally (the best piss head carpenters on the island) to the loophole his lawyer discovers in the fishing regulations allowing him to ordain a flock of holy fisher folk to supply his cafe with fresh fish, Whacker?hilarious first year on the island creates colourful mayhem.With ingenious marketing and some daring exploits involving g-strings and farting posts, the cafe soon becomes the hottest eatery in the Hauraki Gulf, before disaster strikes, in the form of the Minister of Fisheries, five ex-wives and a rabid lady lawyer.